On Friday, Brooklyn and Miami will meet while wearing jerseys with the players' nicknames on the back. Marketing gimmick? You bet! But it's tough to hate on anything that gives you a reason to flip over to a January Nets game. The Heat have revealed what their players will go by, and the Nets most of theirs, so let's take a look.

Some of these weren't the players' first choices. Shane Battier wanted to wear "Batman," which would have been amazing, but would be a trademark violation. Andrei Kirilenko's preferred "AK-47" was presumably nixed by the league, so he's going with the Cyrillic spelling of his name.

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And if Joe Johnson ever gets matched up on James Jones, the entire arena should stand up, point, and laugh at them for their lack of creativity.